Tag: Haqqani network

ISI continues to aid Haqqanis, Taliban: John Allen

Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) continues to maintain ties to the Taliban and the Haqqani network, the top commander of US and NATO forces in Afghanistan...

Memogate and the state of the State

According to Mansoor Ijaz, he got the unsigned memo delivered to Adm Mike Mullen as asked for by Ambassador Husain Haqqani on behalf of...

US envoy complains of Haqqani havens: report

The US ambassador to Afghanistan sent a top-secret cable to Washington last month warning that the existence of enemy havens in Pakistan was placing...

Pakistan exerting insufficient pressure on militant groups: CIA

Pakistan was exerting insufficient pressure on militant groups, including the Haqqani network, Afghan Taliban and some other allies of al Qaeda, Central Intelligence Agency...

Dangerously isolated

Revision of security paradigm required What needs to be discussed by Pakistan’s foreign policy wonks during the ongoing ambassadors’ meeting is the country’s unending isolation....

US sanctions Haqqani network commander

The US took action on Tuesday aimed at ensuring that a jailed commander of the Haqqani network or his associates, never benefit from funds...

Is US policy in Afghanistan a contradiction?

The latest US catchphrase in the decade-long Afghan war may be “fight, talk, build”, but analysts ask if it is a fundamental contradiction, or...

In a quagmire

On Friday, the US told Pakistan peremptorily to either join it in fighting the Haqqani network or get out of the way to let...

Cross-border fire angers US troops in Afghanistan

US and Afghan soldiers near the border with Pakistan have faced a sharply increased volume of rocket fire from Pakistani territory in the past...

US must freeze aid until Pakistan helps shut down Haqqani network:...

An influential American think tank has urged the Obama administration to freeze aid to Pakistan until it takes actions against perpetrators of the US...